They worked perfectly fine though.
Print server offline windows 10.
See if its status is running.
Printers showing offline with print server.
This update helps improve the notification of printers when a device wakes up from sleep mode.
1 on your keyboard press the windows logo key and r at the same time.
Then select your printer open queue.
Select start settings devices printers scanners.
If these steps don t put your printer back online then read troubleshooting offline printer problems.
Usually this just involves turning on your printer and waiting a few seconds for the status to change from offline to online.
I could ping the printers so it wasn t that smnp was being blocked.
3 if you can t see its status here right click print spooler service and click start.
Type services msc in the search box and press enter.
Here are a couple of things to look for.
Navigate to control panel and devices and printers.
In rare cases a client thread that has a restricted token detects that a print server is offline.
2 on your keyboard press the p key to faster locate print spooler item.
Printer goes offline due to a windows setting it is entirely possible that a windows 10 setting is interrupting the printer and stopping it working correctly.
Quick one here which i thought was notable.
I had an issue where printer queues on windows server 2012 were showing as offline.
Under printer make sure use printer offline is not selected.
In this situation windows registers a polling loop to check the status of the print server.
After the polling loop is registered windows queries the print server periodically to check whether it is back online.
Posted on june 15 2016 june 15 2016 by adam fowler.
Alternatively you can fix printer offline issue by installing windows 10 update.
Unfortunately this doesn t happen all the time.